Ever think that coders need sports announcers?

[Durandal]

This is just something that popped into my head. Occasionally, whenever I'm doing daily activities, sports announcers' voices pop into my head and comment on what I'm doing. I was coding the other night and ran into a bitchy compile-time error that I couldn't figure out, but when I did, I could hear John Madden and Al Michaels singing my accolades.

MADDEN: It looks like he's satisfied with what he's got, looks like he's gonna test the function.
AL: I think you're right, John. The CALTAL approach has really been working well for him for this programming assignment.
MADDEN: There he goes, it's compiling ... [wait] ... uh oh. Looks like the compiler has thrown a flag. Let's see what we've got.
AL: You gotta hand it to this compiler, he's been just by the book and making fair calls. Let's see what he's got for us, cause I couldn't spot anything.
GCC (REF): There was a flag on the compile. Undefined call to a method of the second member of the pair iterator. 15 minute penalty.
MADDEN: Oh that's gonna hurt! Let's see a replay of that error.
[MADDEN brings out that drawing tablet he has a fetish for.]
MADDEN: If you look here, he's making a call to a public method of a derivative class, but in the management class, he's making that call from a dynamically allocated parent-class pointer.
AL: Boy that really spells trouble, because he needs that function in both derivative classes, but they need to take different arguments. This is gonna be tough. He can't use a virtual function unless he makes a big overhaul of the classes, and he can't define that function in the child classes.
MADDEN: Boy I don't see a way out of this one Al. He might just have to suck it up and re-engineer the parent.
AL: Not something you wanna do with three days to deadline and a biology test on Friday, but he might just have to pull an all-nighter.
MADDEN: Wait, what's he doing here?
AL: He's making the function virtual. What's he up to here?
MADDEN: It looks like he's ... yup! He's using a void pointer for the function parameter.
AL: Boy talk about original. Now all he's gotta do is modify the functions to re-cast the parameter in the children, change the calls slightly and cast the variables appropriately.
MADDEN: You know this is why I got into this game. You may think you're screwed one minute, but then you see an unconventional play like this and you think, "Ya gotta give it to this guy. It'd be a crime if this idea didn't work."
AL: Definitely John. I would denounce God right here if this didn't work, but I don't think that'll be necessary.
MADDEN: Let's hope not.
[MADDEN and AL chuckle.]
AL: The play-clock's winding down ... he's going for the compile button. Let's see how this plays out.
MADDEN: The compiler likes it, let's see if he gets any run-time errors.
AL: Nope! Worked just as it should have.
MADDEN: Looks like he's back on track. Boy what a game!
AL: John, I don't get this excited when my wife puts on the special sheets!
MADDEN: You can say that again, Al. My wife's been pestering me about Viagra, and I've just been telling her, "Honey, we don't need it! Just turn on TechTV!"
AL: Oh boy she must not like that.
MADDEN: No she doesn't. She might be "falling down the stairs," if you know what I mean.
AL: Boy, one of these days, Alice!
MADDEN: Bang, zoom, off to the Moon!
[JOHN and AL chuckle.]
MADDEN: Well that's all for us, folks. Thanks to gcc, our referee and ABC.
JOHN: Good night everyone.

NOTE: I'm not implying that John Madden and Al Michaels beat their wives or think others should beat theirs. Sometimes this shit just writes itself.

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

This is just something that popped into my head. Occasionally, whenever I'm doing daily activities, sports announcers' voices pop into my head and comment on what I'm doing. I was coding the other night and ran into a bitchy compile-time error that I couldn't figure out, but when I did, I could hear John Madden and Al Michaels singing my accolades.

Strange, I do that too.

It's enough to drive one nuts sometimes.

[darthdavid]

[The Wookiee]

Instant FUQ classic.

[Durandal]

I'm glad I have The Wookie's approval.

[Ace Pace]

CLASSIC, Dalton, FUQ it.

[HemlockGrey]

On a similar note, whenever my best friend plays poker he hears the voices of the guys from the World Poker Tour in his head.

[Sharp-kun]

[Vympel]

Strange, it's funny even though I don't know dick about anything to do with coding.

For my part, I always picture Lawrence Olivier narrating whatever the hell I'm doing ala World at War.

[Xon]

And some people I know wonder why I like IDEs which do on-the-fly detection of syntax errors.

[RedImperator]

The Movie Guy narrates my life. You know the voice--the guy who does the voice over for all the movie trailers. It's pretty awesome.

[Pu-239]

And some people I know wonder why I like IDEs which do on-the-fly detection of syntax errors.

Bah! VIM FOREVER!!!!!

[Pu-239]

Oh, I forgot that Vim does highlight errors...